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' .PATENTED sEPjfze; 19015.

No. 800,335.y

J. E. STIRTON.,

GATE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 15, 1905.

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I Qh/tmaowo l JAMES E STIEToN, oE MONROE, wASHiNeroN.

GATE.

Specicationof Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 26, 1905.

Applicaticn filed .Tunel 15, 1905. i Serial No. 265,345.

T0 owl whom, t may concern:

' Beit known that I, JAMES E.-STIRTQN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Monroe, in the county of Snohomish and State of Washington,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gates; and I dodeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description oftheinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art towhich itappertains to make and use the same. v

My invention relates tol improvements in gates, particularly withreference to means for opening, closing,and latching the gate; and itconsists inthe construction, combination, and arrangement of deviceshereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of a gateembodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is an elevation at right angles toFig. 1 and on the plane indicated by the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Figs. 3 and4 are detail Views. v y y The gate 1 m-ay be of the form here shown orof any other suitable form and is provided 'at its inner end with 4theheel 2, having vertical pins 3 4 at its upper and lower ends,respectively, which are respectively journaled in bearings 5 6 on theinner sideoi` a post 7 to which the gate is hung. The said bearings maybe of any suitable construction. The pin 3 extends entirely through andprojects upwardly above the bearing 5. The lower end of the pin 4 isrecessed and lits on a bearing-ball 8 on the bearing 6. A plate 10,which is secured on the said .bearing 6,'has an opening through whichthe said pin extends. The gate is here shown as provided with aninclined brace-bar 11, the upper end of which is secured to heel-postnear the upper end of the latter andthe lower end oi" which is securedto the lower outer corner of the gate.

Inclined arms or supports 12 project from opposite sides of the post 7which are connected together by a brace, as shown, and serve at theirouter ends to support pulleys 13,'which hang therefrom.

The gate is provided at its free end with a latch-bar 14, which ismovable longitudinally. Alink-bar 15 has its upper end pivotallyconnected to the gate, as at 16, and its lower end pivotally connectedto the latch-bar near the inner end ofthe lever, as at 17. The latchbaris adapted to engage and disengage a notched catch 18, which is securedto the inner side of the post. 19, against which the gate closes.

On the upper bearing-pin 3 ofthe gate-heel y is, pivotally mounted alatch-operating and `gate-swinging device, which I will now describe.The said 'device comprises a pair of crossed bars 20 21 of suitabledimensions, secured together at their centers. The pin 3 passes throughalined openings in the centers of the said crossed bars, and on the bar21,

which is at right angles to the bar 20 andv which is also normally atright angles to the plane of the gate,r is secured a plate or strap22'of metal, which bears on the upper end of the Said pin 3. A curvedsemicircular angle steel or iron bar 23 has its ends secured to the endsof the bar 21 and its central portion secured to the outer end of thebar 20. The angle-bar 23 has its channeled side turned outwardly toforma groove for the reception of operating wires 24, which are disposedin overlapping relation in the groove formed in said curved bar 23 andhave 'theirinner ends secured to the link-bar 15; as at 25. The

`outer ends of the said wires, which extend in oppositedirections, aresecured to operating cords or ropes 26,which pass over the pulleys 13,depend from the latter, and are provided with weight-handles 27, theweight of which is sufficient to keep the said operating-wires undersuch tension as to prevent them from becoming disengaged from the grooveof the segmental bar 23 of theswinging and latch operating device.

The operation of myimproved gate is as follows: Assuming that the gateis closed,a person approaching it from either side, either on foot, in avehicleor on horseback, grasps one of the weight-handles 27' and pullsdownwardly on the same, thereby exerting such tension on one of theoperating-wires as to cause the latter to partly turn Athelatch-operating de-V gate to be swung reversely to the closed position,thellatch-bar 14 automatically engaging and becoming caught by the catch18.

, T0 prevent the latch-operating and gateswinging device from sagging, Iconnect the inner end of the bar 20 to the brace-bar 11 of the gate byvmeans of the wire28, as shown in Fig. 1. l

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From the foregoing description, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, the construction and operation of the inventionwill be readily understood without requiring a more extendedexplanation.

Various changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details ofconstruction may be resorted to without departing from the principle orsacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In combination with a swinging gate having a latch, a latch-operatingand gate-swing ing device comprising a pair of crossed arms 2O 21pivotally mounted on the heel of the gate at a point coincident with thepoint of their intersection, said bar 20 lying substantially parallelwith the gate and said bar 21 being substantially at right angles to thegate, a curved bar connecting the ends oi the crossbar 2l and the rearend ol the bnr 22,s:1id curved bar extending in rear o1' the hecl oi thegate, a connection 28 between the gate and the front end of the bar 20to prevent the latch operating and gate swinging device from sagging,operating-wires rcversely disposed on said curved bar and having theirinner ends connected to the latch for operating the latter, andoperating-device guides for the outer ends of said wires.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence ol twosubscribing witnesses.

JAMES E. STIR'ION.

Witnesses:

JoHN P. AUSTIN, JAMES FANNnn.

